2023 PINE NEEDLE BIKE FESTIVAL

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Round up some friends, get your bikes tuned up, enter your 4 person team and come enjoy the awesome trails in Little Red.  Want to ride more laps? Find a partner, enter a 2 person team.  Or, the ultimate challenge, ride the 6 hour event solo and see how many laps you can do!

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED Register yourself or your team online through the Zone 4 platform.  To register, follow this link: 

Pine Needle Mountain Bike Festival Online Registration

REGISTER AT THE EVENT

Missed the online registration? No worries!  You can register for the Pine Needle Mountain Bike Festival in person on Sunday morning.  Registration is open from 9:30am to 10:30am Sunday, June 11th at Little Red River Park. 

Individual - $100

2-Person Team - $200

4-Person Team - $400

Registration fee includes: Festival t-shirt, Festival number plate, meal tokens, and the chance at winning amazing door prizes!

See how many laps you can complete in 6 hours!  Push yourself and your team to complete as many laps as you can.  Prizes will be awarded to the teams and individuals that complete the most laps.

Money raised from the Pine Needle Mountain Bike & Music Festival will be donated to Little Red River Park

The 2023 Festival loop will be 6km long and has approximately 60 meters of elevation gain per lap.  The Festival loop is very similar to the 2019 course, but will cross legendary bridge, Hands Bridge.  The trail is a mixture of fast double and flowy single track.  There are 2 climbs that will test riders.  The first climb is up the road about 700 meters into the loop.  The second climb is after Hands Bridge and is a gradual climb out of the river valley.   

Festival loop on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1pj53eJsMEg8qI9TzmI28b4l_lxadVgU&usp=sharing

Festival loop on Strava: https://www.strava.com/routes/3100968689208407980

The Festival has riders of all ages and abilities.  If you are a fast rider, please notify slower riders by calling out "passing on your left" or "passing on your right" .  Please be courteous to each other and please have patience through the single track sections as it is sometimes harder to pass slower riders in the single track.

Each team must have 1 rider on the course at all times.  Only 1 rider from your team is permitted to be on course at a time.  

Riders must use caution entering the Exchange Area and obey all signs.  Team mates must tag hands in the exchange area when there is a change in who will be on course.

We will be closing the course with 15 minutes left on the clock.  No riders will be permitted to start a new lap after the clock shows 15 minutes or less.